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M17 (Omega Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars Location: Milford, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Jun 20 02:30:00 2009 UT Obs. no.: 1825
On Friday evening my friends Steve Borer, Rob Masud and Suzanne Manning viewed some objects in the southern sky with my 10X50 binoculars. In Scorpius We observed the globular cluster M4 and the open cluster M7. M7 is quite an impressive open cluster in binoculars with individual stars easily seen. In Sagittarius we observed the open cluster M21, the globular cluster M22 and nebulas M8 and M17. By far M8 was the most impressive of the group with an open cluster on one side and the nebula next to it. M17 was also impressive and I thought it looked like a swan in my binoculars. We also took a peak at Saturn through Rob's 4.5" Dob. Saturn's rings are almost edge on but not quite. All in all a great evening of casual observing.
M17 (Omega Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: poor
Time: Sun Jul 3 22:35:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1253
This nebula appeared great along with the nearby galactic cluster, M18. The fainter part of the nebula was visible with averted vision.
M17 (Omega Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.astroclubul.org/emilneata)
Instrument: 60-mm refractor Location: Craiova, Romania
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Jan 25 00:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1170
M 17 - Very bright nebula, elongated shape. The northern part is almost straight, in the south I can see a small prominence.
M17 (Omega Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Rob Teeter (e-mail: webuser@thecore.com, web: http://www.thecore.com/~webuser/)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Howell, NJ, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: excellent Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Jun 30 16:35:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 357
Slewed my scope until the coordinates on my DSCs read all zeros and looked into the eyepiece. At 34x I was greated with a large, flat, bright field with the Swan sitting in the center. The body was easily detected, while the head/neck of the Swan were considerably dimmer. I then placed in my Lumicon Oxygen III filter and the entire background grew to a velvetty-black. The Swan (body, neck and head) stood out and even showed some 'ribs' on it's underside. Lots of outstanding detail for only an 8"! Definately a favorite object!
M17 (Omega Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: John Callender (e-mail: jbc@west.net, web: http://www.west.net/~jbc/)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Carpinteria, CA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Jun 29 10:30:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 172
The Omega (Swan) Nebula jumped out at me as I did a quick sweep through the summer Milky Way. It still startles (and pleases) me how my new 8-inch Dobsonian (the biggest telescope I've ever owned), when used in the fairly dark skies around here, allows me to really SEE such objects, and recognize their appearance from photographs, rather than merely detecting them as subliminal fuzzy patches, which was about all I could hope with my binoculars or 2.4-inch refractor from my former light-polluted home in Manhattan Beach. Anyway, the Swan was beautiful! I definitely need to come back to this region soon, and perform a detailed exploration. Perhaps a summer "bug hunt," to go with the winter one I performed back in February.
M17 (Omega Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius, Est. RaDec 18h 21m, -16.11)
Observer: Alan Shaffer (e-mail: milkyway@gte.net, web: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3693/)
Instrument: 25-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Mt. Pinos, California, US
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat Jun 7 10:00:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 144
The Swan was my next target at Mt. Pinos. Again, I used the O-III filter and a low power. Throught the 25" and the 10" SCT, it looked as if I were on top of the nebula. Very bright but void of any color. I obsered it for @ 20 min. and picked out a lot of detal. This nebula was picked up in my 50mm exposure of the Sagittarius constelation. Very nice.
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